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Tank is a 1984 drama film starring James Garner (from The Great Escape primarily, but also the antagonist of Atlantis: The Lost Empire), Shirley Jones (The Partridge Family; Oklahoma) and C. Thomas Howell (Red Dawn), and also James Cromwell (Babe, Star Trek: First Contact, The Green Mile, Space Cowboys, The Sum of All Fears, I Robot, The Longest Yard and Surrogates) and G. D. Spradlin (The Godfather Part II and Apocalypse Now) as The Dragon and the Corrupt Cop, respectively.
Tank has examples of:[]
- A Father to His Men: And to his kid, and to other people's kids.
- Corrupt Cop: Sherrif Cyrus Buelton. And everyone else.
- Corrupt Hick: Major Zak Carey {{[hottip|*:Played by James Garner}} gets on the bad side of one of these, who ends up framing his son for drug possession and cheating him out of his retirement money. Garner's character, however, is a Sergeant Major in the Army — literally almost a Retired Badass- - and owns a fully restored, fully armed WWII Sherman tank. Hilarity Ensues.
- Dirt Forcefield: Works on Bill's skin, but not his clothing.
- Good Ol' Boy: Cyrus. The trope is even referenced by name.
- Hooker with a Heart of Gold: Sarah.
- Lock and Load Montage: More like a Start Up The Tank Montage, but it still counts.
- Military Brat: Bill and (the dead) John.
- Military Maverick: Subverted; Zack is all for keeping the peace in the armed forces. Before he goes on his road trip, he resigns from the army, meaning it's now a strictly civilian matter. The army can't get involved.
- One-Man Army
- Papa Wolf: Shown zealously earlier on, then taken Up to Eleven later.
- Prison Rape: Implied that this will happen to Bill full stop.
- Tank Goodness: It's in the name.
- Was It Really Worth It?